Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-31
MAGNANIMITY WITH A BIG NJ.
The Radical Leaders In Council Hardly
Reach an Organization Before the Closen
Foot of Partisau.liiD Protrudes,

The Radical Leaders In Council Hardly
Reach an Organization Before the Closen
Foot of Partisansliip Protrudes.
I'VE deprccate the Introduction Of party spirit
into the cty's government. ~ Hart bcfOrt the
siCttiOH.
To The Editor Of Ue RcgiS'r.
SIR:-At the first session of Council
held after the election. George b. Caldwell
in the Second Branch and +. Il. Dobbins
in the First Branch, in accordance with an
evidently prearranged plan. offered reSo-
lutions to have the Mayor aud President
appoint select committee OF three from
each Branch TO select the standing COM
mittees Of Council. Both gentlemen care
fully avoided placing the Mayor or Presi-
dent on the committee. Never in the his
tory of thecity was so small and venOmOus
an insult offered the Mayor. To the credit
of the ''yice engendering, beer drinking
Democracy" it can be said that such
vicious spite does not dirty its record. No
Republican Mayor OF President can truth
fully say that he WAS ever offered such an
insult a. this.
How much astOnished the new President
must have been to hear this resolution read
by the same man who, a few minutes be.
tore, had pledged him TO preside in an
impartial and HOH-pOIiich manner and ap-
peal to the Democrats in Council to vote
for him on those grounds. Does the new
President see by this time an attempt Ia
close the old breach between his friend
Caldwell and the hammer Republican ward
by daubing it full OF tafy?
II this resolution had been offered in the
two Branche, by nelc members, it might be
excused on the ground of over zeal on their
part. The Offering oi it by two old, expe-
rienccd members, who are both high up in
Republican party councils tone of them
President Of the Lincoln Club, shows that
it was not the result of an accident, but
that it was the action Oia party caucus. IL
was an exhibition of the introduction Of
the party spirit Hart feared ~ much before
the election, when the signs pointed To q
Democratic Council.
When the resolution, ~ amended in the
Second Branch, was presented in the First,
a Republican rnember jumped 10 his feet
ami inquired, what that there resolution
was doing here; that's not what we want. "
In the Second Branch, when the First
DTunCu ItSoluIlOn CdIlt over lOI CONCUR
renee, Mr.. Caldwell took the highly pat
liamentary ground that when n resolution
was passed by one Branch and the other
Branch was asked Ia concur, that no amend
ment, no motion 10 table, 10 reject or re-
turn was in order, that the vote must be
on concurrence. Like the rat,lesnake in
August, his venom made him blind. IL
waa refreshing IN Scp Mr. Rem Allisnn Uet
up in his place and walk up aud down his
colleagues frame. Whew! how he made
his hair fly, and how he put gravel in his
Eighth ward tafry! For this fair play and
gcntlemanly conduct on the part OF Mr..
Allisnn and his Republican fellow. mem
bers, who acted with him in securing the
defeat of the malicious resolution, the De
mocracy return thanks. We may be a
drunken, ignorant party, Ben, but we
know gentleman when we see one, aud
have right keen appreciation Of kind
ness. DEMOCRAT.